President Donald Trump thinks this photo, of House Leader Nancy Pelosi berating him over his abandonment of America's Kurdish allies, will make her look bad. The BBC quotes Republican "leaders"… Read the rest of the article: White House posts "unbecoming" photo of Nancy Pelosi berating Trump
After greenlighting Turkey's invasion of Kurdish-held Syria by evacuating U.S. troops, Trump realized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was making a fool of him and sent a bizarre letter his… Read the rest of the article: Turkey's Erdoğan"threw" Trump's threatening letter "in the bin"
After days of crunch negotiations with the European Union, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally announced his Brexit deal. It solves the problem of the Irish backstop—the need to avoid… Read the rest of the article: New Brexit deal announced. It's Theresa May's one but with a border in the Irish sea
Analogue Pocket is a forthcoming handheld game console that runs old Nintendo carts and offers a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workstation with a… Read the rest of the article: Analogue Pocket
Donald Trump, nominally the President of the United States of America, recently withdrew U.S. troops from Kurdish-held lands and greenlit a Turkish invasion of same, at Turkish president Recep Tayyip… Read the rest of the article: Read Trump's ridiculous threat letter to the Turkish president
The New York Times is still great: Photos of Kim Jong-un on a Horse North Korea’s state news agency said the dictator’s eyes were “full of noble glitters” during his… Read the rest of the article: Photos of Kim Jong-un on horseback
Bart Baker is a YouTuber who specialized in vulgar videos and pop-star parodies, but his income withered when the site demonetized all the horrible things we didn't realize our kids… Read the rest of the article: YouTuber, iced out of monetization, looks to China
I have a whetstone, faucet and a knife, but never quite get the results I want. So Cook with E's guide to using them ("the only time I've ever seriously… Read the rest of the article: 30 minutes of whetstone sharpening tips
The apogee of Simpsonwave, by KingChritty in 2017: Thoughts,attitude,train,-Simpsons. The track is "trains.", by altitude.
A fire raged for hours Tuesday at the NuStar storage silo farm by the Phillips 66 refinery between Oakland and Vallejo, California. There's an archived live feed from KRCA showing… Read the rest of the article: Explosion at California storage tank farm
We're going back out there, but it's dangerous out there and y'all better know it. Space travel is hard and unforgiving, but we have never been more ready to meet… Read the rest of the article: NASA videos on the harshness of space and a cool new space suit for exploring the Moon
Australian Kitch is that rarest of things, a good Twitter account. Here are four gems it found from the newly-launched National Archive of Australia.
Action Man: Battlefield Casualties is a set of black-comedy parody ads for a more realistic war-themed childrens' toy. It was produced by Veterans for Peace UK, to challenge a British… Read the rest of the article: Toy soldier parody ad highlights veterans' plight, war's horrors
The New York Times reports that John Bolton, Trump's former national security advisor, might turn out to be the loudest whistle of all in the case of Rudy Giuliani's demented… Read the rest of the article: Former Trump advisor John Bolton: "I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up.”
If you've been enjoying those videos where Bill Hader's face morphs uncannily into whoever he's impersonating, this one from Jim Meskimen is the overwhelming overdose. It's a perfect intentional demonstration… Read the rest of the article: Jim Meskimen, deepfake face dancer
Reuters reports, without offering any context, the fact that a man dressed as a giant broccoli was arrested yesterday in London. While being detained, he yells "give peas a chance."… Read the rest of the article: London police arrest man dressed as broccoli
Elizabeth Warren overtook Joe Biden in one nationwide poll and the billionaires are already taking his pulse. Michael Bloomberg (~$50bn net worth) today makes clear his intentions if Biden slips… Read the rest of the article: Billionaire Michael Bloomberg threatens to run for Democratic nomination if Biden drops
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted "secretive talks" and off-the-record dinners with conservative figures in recent months, reports Politico's Daniel Lippman. Among the delights were discussions of "free speech and partnerships"… Read the rest of the article: Politico: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held secret meetings with conservative pundits and politicians
Arcade Game Typography [Amazon] is a forthcoming book by Toshi Omagari that "definitively surveys" the pixelated fonts of arcade games from the 1970s to the 1990s. It's full of gorgeous-looking… Read the rest of the article: Arcade Game Typography: beautiful book of pixel fonts
Not long ago, United demanded a black passenger remove her official Marvel "Black Panther" hat because it made someone uncomfortable. This weekend, United refused to even challenge a white passenger… Read the rest of the article: United: woman in Marvel "Black Panther" hat is a threat to passengers, but man in "Rope. Tree. Journalist" shirt is just sharing his opinion
